Australian Museum


www.australianmuseum.net.au


Instructions:

Click on Culture, select Egypt, select Artisans.


Activity:

Look at the images and then click back to the Ancient Egypt page and click on Art and Artisans. Look at the headings and pick a type of art you are interested in learning about (Pottery, Sculpture, Scribe, Painting, and Jewlery). Draw a picture of one of these types of art in your passport and answer one of the questions below.


  1. Pottery – What materials are Egyptian pottery made from? *Tip: Read the paragraphs and the comments under the pictures. You can click on the pictures to learn more.
  2. Sculptures – What materials were used to make sculptures?
  3. Hieroglyphs - What material were hieroglyphs carved into?
  4. Painting – What materials were used to make the color green and black?
  5. Jewelery – What materials were used to make jewelery for the rich and what materials were used to make jewelery for the poor?

If you want you can draw a mummy or a mummy in a tomb with your piece of art as well.


If you are interested in learning more about a type of egyptian art you can google it and draw a different image as long as you copy down the website you visited